FAR

FAR event times:
Friday April 10, 2:00 pm/ 5:00 pm/ 1:30 pm - screening of Seeds
Saturday April 11, 1:00 pm / 3:00 pm / 12:30 pm - showing of Slumlord Millionaire

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Hosted by the Documentary Center for Research and Practice, the InLight Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is hosting “Local Realities and Beyond,” a curated program of eight feature documentaries that expose how seemingly mundane structures/dynamics shape the stakes of human rights across continents through both power and resistance. Dealing with themes like colonialism, climate change, and class disparity, these films show day-to-day exploitation and extraction in schools, cities, courts, farms, homes, and even the deep sea. With consistent and instant access to information, power often impacts our daily lives in easily recognizable ways; however, this curation of films emphasizes abuses of power that may not be immediately detectable, and how humans respond.

About the Organizer

The Center for Documentary Research and Practice is a multidisciplinary unit with The Media School that brings together scholars and artists from across IU who are working on an array of nonfiction media projects. It also serves as a home to visiting artists and postdoctoral scholars who are working on projects with nonfiction media components.The center supports faculty and graduate students who make documentaries as part of their research and serves as a research hub for those completing historical, theoretical, and critical research on nonfiction film and video. The center provides technological and creative support for projects, and it is a forum for faculty and graduate students to present completed and in-process work.Email either caroferr@iu.edu or mschcdrp@iu.edu.